国家电网专业技术人员电力英语水平考试(英语阅读理解).

四、阅读理解 1.

A friend of time, in response to a conversation we were having about the injustice of life, asked me the question:"who said life was the going to be fair, or that it was even meant to be fair?" ……P341 2.

A new analysis of faderal money that public schools receive for low-income students shows ……P347 3.

A new technology is going to ripe, one that could transform our daily

lives, ……P349 4.

Any mistake made in the printing of a raises its value to stamp collectors.……P334 5.

Doctors have know for a long time that extremely loud noises can cause hearing damage or loss.……P332--333 6.

For centuries, in the countries of south and Southeast Asia the elephant has been an intimate part of the culture, economy and religion.……P336 7.

For most of us, work is the central, dominating fact of life.……P358 8.

Have you ever seen a moon that looks unbelievably big?……P 328 9.

Holiday in the United Sated usually occur at least once a month.……P329 10.

In the 1920s America enjoyed what was to become know as "an Age of

Exces s".……P359 11.

In the English educational system, students take three very important examinations. ……P335 12.

In the past two years, millions of American have suddenly, embraced the bicycles as if it were a startling new invention.……P332 13.

In you're finding it tough to hand a job, try expanding your job-hunting plan to include the following strategies.……P346 14.

It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries.……P343 15.

Japan is getting tough about recycling-and not in he paper and plastic kind of way.……P340 16.

Just two months ago, Ana, a teenager, was prepaing for an important exam.……P334 17.

Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in

danger. ……P339 18.

Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic(边缘的 system of the brain, ……P353 19.

More surprising, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact

that ……P350 20.

People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early that ……P342 21.

People become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot. ……P351 22.

Sarah Winchester was a very rich woman.……P330 23.

Strange thing happens to time when you travel.……P328 24.

The diner is only a humble restaurant, but it has a special place in American life.……P331 25. The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail, automobile or telephone

revolution. ……P337

26. The cause of the decline of North Africa is popularly attributed to climatic changes, the

theory being that……P344

27. The small coastal town of Broome, in northwest Australia, is a remote village in the vast

countryside. ……P345

28. The struggle against malnutrition(营养不良 and hunger is as old as man himself,

and ……P352

29. The health-care economy is filled with unusual and even unique economic

relationships. ……P355

30. There are good reasons for be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the

media. ……P356